Organizational Logic and Feminist Organizing: Stewardesses for Women’s Rights

Parsons, Donna; Sanderson, Kathy; Mills, Jean Helms; Mills, Albert J.

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“…We argue that critical hermeneutics was an appropriate methodology for this study because the data we collected from the Otto Richter Library archive consisted almost exclusively of textual material (Parsons et al, 2012). As well, critical hermeneutical analysis goes past interpretation to reveal “the relations of power and domination that go into the very formation of text” (Prasad, 2005: 34).…”

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“…Particularly important to our postcolonial study was the “critical” factor because a critical approach not only seeks an external investigation of the contexts, but also introspection from the researchers (Parsons et al, 2012). Prasad and Mir (2002) state that critical hermeneutics has a goal of “exposing hidden power imbalances and challenges the status quo” (Prasad and Mir, 2002: 110).…”

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Images of the “other”

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Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This article explores the relationship between Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) and Latin America to understand the role of Western multinational corporations in the historical processes of postcoloniality-that is, the representation of the non-Western "other" to Western audiences. Informed by postcoloniality and the use of a critical hermeneutics method, we draw on 64 years of archived materials from the Pan American World Airways Collection 341, housed at the Otto Richter Library at the University of Miami, as well as numerous histories of the airline. Our findings show how Pan Am gained a powerful position, both politically and economically, which facilitated its ability to construct influential images of Latin American employees, citizens, and the idea of Latin America. Although Pan Am ceased operations in 1991, its years of dominance in South America had the capability to contribute and provide insights into our understanding of the continued postcolonial processes and the idea of (North) "Americanism." More importantly, our article demonstrates how using a postcolonial framework can assist organizational and business scholars to better understand the role that historical patterns play in organizations still today. We hope that using alternative methodologies and theories such as postcolonialism to examine contemporary management culture, we will better be able to understand how history has been "written" in an effort to lessen "Western" ideologies and include diverse epistemological perspectives.

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Images of the “other”

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Paludi

Mills

et al. 2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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“…Both of these concepts have been examined through empirical research. A small body of work focuses on the gendered organisational logic in the airline industry (Dye & Mills, 2011Parsons, Sanderson, Mills, & Mills, 2012). For example, Dye and Mills used Acker's framework to examine the development of gendered discourses in the Pan Am airline company between the 1940s and 1980s (Dye & Mills, 2005.…”

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Negotiating career progression and parenthood: family-adaptiveness in an Australian university

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Organizational Logic and Feminist Organizing: Stewardesses for Women’s Rights

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Images of the “other”

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Negotiating career progression and parenthood: family-adaptiveness in an Australian university

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